Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.