A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.