The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.