Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness