He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.