Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.