“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

“I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

“Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.”

“Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”

“No one has attained his goal without action. Even men like Janaka attained salvation through action.”

“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”

“The future depends on what you do today.”

“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”

“Quien sigue el camino de la verdad, no tropieza.”

“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.”

“Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?”

“The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.”

“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.”

“Effort is within man’s control, not the fruit thereof.”