True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.