Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.