For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

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.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.