As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.