I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.