It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.