The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by l...
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is...
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down...
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not su...
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.