Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

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

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.