The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

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.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?