“There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”

“A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite”

“Even if you are a minority of one, the Truth is the Truth.”

“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

“I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.”

“The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.” 

“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”

“Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order.”

“The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”