Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.