The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.