We have to be the change we want in the world.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.