A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Even if the paradise of material satisfactions, which they envisage as their final goal, were realize on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
My life is my message.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.