It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.