What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.