The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.