Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

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.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.