All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.