But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man’s place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.
The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
If you don’t ask, you don’t get it.
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
Men in prison are “civilly dead” and have no claim to any say in policy.
There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
Violence is the fear to other’s ideals.
The external freedom won’t be given to us but in the exact measure as we’ve known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.
It’s more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other’s words with nothing of the own heart.
Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.
If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
The true battlefield is within.
Concentrate on your task.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.