Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

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

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.