The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.