The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.