A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.