Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

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

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.