Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.