We have to shed mutual bickering, shed the difference of being high or low, develop a sense of equality and banish untouchability. We have to restore the conditions of Swaraj prevalent prior to British rule and live like children of the same father.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. 

 Plan for the future but don’t starve yourself to death in the process.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.