Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.