The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.