Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.