In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark night. Don’t think of society as the sky on a full moon night. The moon’s harsh light blinds us to the true and humble work of the stars. But on a moonless night, the true servants shine forth, as though they are connected invisibly in this vast and infinite cosmos.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.