Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into ineffable joy.
Happiness is when what you think, waht you say and what you do are in harmony.
If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
An unjust law is a species of violence. Arrest for it’s breach is even more so.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.