An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.