Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.