The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.