Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.