I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.