Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Be the change you want to see.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.