I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.