Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.