Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

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