Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.