To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

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.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.