A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.