Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.