Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

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