Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

Art to be art must soothe.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.