When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.