To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.