If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.