Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

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.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.