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

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.