Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.