I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.