Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.