The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

If you don't ask, you don't get it