A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.