No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

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

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.