Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.