The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. 

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Those who seek realities in this world of illusions are likely to be disappointed at times.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.