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.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.