I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.