Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.