The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.