Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.