Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Emotionally intelligent people think before they speak and exercise discretion.

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

We won't back down! We won't be trumped!

I want to see an honest press.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.