If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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.