Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.