... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.