The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.