There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.