Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.