But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.