Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.