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"The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely."
"Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you."
"If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality."
"Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others."
"The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer."
"For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence."
"Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity."
"If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be"
"He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips."
"Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible."
"Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?"
"Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself."
"A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs."
"Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good."
"No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators."
"I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world."
"The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings."
"If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry."
"Man does not live by destruction."
"Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes."