Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.