When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

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

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Life is greater than all art.