In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.