I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.