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

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.