Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
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...
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Action expresses priorities.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence...
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of p...