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.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.