Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

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