The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.