My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

We must be the world we want to create.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.