A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.