I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.