Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.