“The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali”

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

“Jangan bekerja sama dengan kejahatan,  sebab kewajiban kita adalah bekerja sama dengan kebaikan.”

“Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit—be detached and work—have no desire for reward and work.”

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”

“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

“Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Polak and I had often very heated discussions about the desirability or otherwise of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They deprive them of the spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extent unfit for the service of the country. Having these convictions, I made a point of always talking to my children in Gujarati. Polak never liked this. He thought I was spoiling their future. He contended, with all the vigour and love at his command, that, if children were to learn a universal language like English from their infancy, they would easily gain considerable advantage over others in the race of life. He failed to convince me. I do not now remember whether I convinced him of the correctness of my attitude, or whether he gave me up as too obstinate. This happened about twenty years ago, and my convictions have only deepened with experience. Though my sons have suffered for want of full literary education, the knowledge of the mother-tongue that they naturally acquired has been all to their and the country’s good, inasmuch as they do not appear the foreigners they would otherwise have appeared. They naturally became bilingual, speaking and writing English with fair ease, because of daily contact with a large circle of English friends, and because of their stay in a country where English was the chief language spoken.”

“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”

“Where there is possessiveness, there is violence.”