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

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.