My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.