Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Peace is its own reward.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.