My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.