If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.