The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.