The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.