The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.