True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.