The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.