To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.