Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

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

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.