The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.