“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”

“Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningf...”

“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.”

“Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, ones paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.”

“Lasting harmony between the sexes cannot be achieved through social, psychological, or political reform alone...they are not sufficient in themselves because gender reconciliation entails an inhere...”

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social marker...”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”

“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”