I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

See the good in people and help them.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

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.