What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.