The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Every time you give, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

To my mind the old masters are not at; their value is in their scarcity.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

My heart is very weary and sad and alone, For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone, And why should I say behind.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non violence in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

Bliss is ultimate glory on a spiritual plane.

Intelligence is the application of knowledge.