We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.