Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.