We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.