To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material 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.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

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.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.