“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.”

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

After all, our Killers are our …Brothers!!??

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

It may be providence’s will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through.

I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.