All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.