It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.