Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.