If i wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, i must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.