The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

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.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.