Asceticism he found to be useless. It was vain to attempt to escape from the world. There is no escape from the world even for an ascetic. He realised that what is necessary is not escape from the world. What is necessary is to change the world and to make it better.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

Hardships exist to make me stronger, helping me grow and improve, not to leave me hopeless or discouraged.