You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.