No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

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.