A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.