Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.