I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.