No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.