The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.