Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.