Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.