Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

I hope, or I could not live.