Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.