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.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.