If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.