If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.