I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.