Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.