For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.