“This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.”

“The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.”

“Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world”

“The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.”

“If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought wi...”

“...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...”

“Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights.”

“And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in the bright, cool, autumn days, he can never really be a townsman, and to the day of his death he w...”

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion ...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“For an apple you cant reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree wont bend down for you!”

“For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!”