Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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.

I had learnt at the outset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. One could rely on people's promises in most matters except in respect of money.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.

There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.