If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.