To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.