If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

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

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.