The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.