All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.