Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

The sign of life is strength and growth.