No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.