Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.