I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.