It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.