Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
• There is more to life than increasing its speed.
• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
• Where there is love there is life.
• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.