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

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

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.