If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.