We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Faith is a function of the heart.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.