The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.