Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.