Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.