I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Be the change you want to see.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.