Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.