Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.