There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.