If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

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.