Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.