Learn as if you will live forever.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.