My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.