I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

I have from my experience come to the conclusion that Gita has been composed to teach this one truth which I have explained. We can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.

But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.

Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

When asked what he thought of Western civilization: I think it would be a good idea.