Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

The future of India lies in its villages

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.