As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

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

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.