It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.