It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.”
The roots of violence: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
The Seven Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
