I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Idleness is the great plague of India.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.