I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.