Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.