Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

The sum of all that lives is God.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.