All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.