God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.