Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.