Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Never make a promise in haste.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.