I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.