To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.