If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

One of the greatest disease is to be nobody to anybody.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

The look of city is the reflection of the outlook of its denizens.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.