Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

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

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.