I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.