It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

God has no religion.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

Let your life be your message.

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

My life is my message.

President means chief servant.

I trust men only because I trust God.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.