Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

Man is greater than the gods.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.