Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.