If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

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

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.