The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.