The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.