The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.