Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Faith is the function of the heart.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.