If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.