Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

It can be simplified easily, if an individual works his heel peak for the freedom of the nation, he might get punished by the Englishmen, but if a group of individuals form a community to fight for freedom, they get success. 

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.