The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.