I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.