You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.