Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.