Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.