If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

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 yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.