'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.