First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!