The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.