A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

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

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.