Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

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.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.