If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.