I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Meditation is waiting on God.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.