While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.