I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

 Even  P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E ends with the letter 'E.' There can be no patience after that. 

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.