There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.