The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.