A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.