Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.