I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.