I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.