My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.