I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.