A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.