Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.