I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.