The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.