Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.