A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.