Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.