We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

It Is possible to live in peace.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.