True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.