A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.