I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Love is the law of life.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

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.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.