The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

War knows no law except that of might.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.