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

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

Live simply that others might simply live.

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.