Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

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

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.