There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.