If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.