Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.