I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

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.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.