You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.