The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.