A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

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

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.