You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

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

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.

Where love is, there God is also.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self-­suffering.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.