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.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.