The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.