No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Where there is love there is life.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Peace is its own reward.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.