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

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.