Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.