I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

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