The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.