A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.