Democracy and violence can ill go together.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.