“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”

“If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!”

“There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.”

“I have nothing new to teach the world.Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.”

“At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.”