Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.