Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.