I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.