The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.