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.

To give one's heart is to give all.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

You can't hurt me without my permission.