Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.