I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.