If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.