There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.