 A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. |
| Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. |
| The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. |
| Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. |
| Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. |
| In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. |
| A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. |
| To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. |
| Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. |
| The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. |
| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. |
| A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. |
| Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. |
| I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. |
| Those who know how to think need no teachers. |
