That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.