Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.