To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.