A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

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.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.