The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

My religion has no geographical limits.