Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.