I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.