The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.