Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.