My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

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

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.