There is no retirement age for writers…

I was a disadvantaged child from a uneducated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Forget the past.

Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.