The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. 

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Many people are forced to do jobs that they don’t like—just to make both ends meet.

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.