Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.