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

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.