If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.