One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.