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.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone