When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.