The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

I trust men only because I trust God.