Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

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

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.