The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Pleasure is a physical experience.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. 

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

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.

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.