Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.