Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.