I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior.
The mantram becomes one’s staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
A man of truth must also be a man of care.
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.