While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.