Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world..

God's word is : He who strives never perishes..

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect..

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope..

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful..

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers..

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy..

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life..

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the hor….

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him..

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea..

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates..

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life..

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world..

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction..

Faith is a function of the heart..

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He ….

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence..

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist..

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent..

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love..