Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.