Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.