A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

Faith is a function of the heart.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.