I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

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

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.