Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.