The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.