One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.