To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

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

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.