Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.