It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.