A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.