Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.