This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.