A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.