A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.