“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”

“I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.”

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

“understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’.”

“Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.”

“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.”

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. He becomes impatient and then gives vent to anger and begins to do unworthy things; he jumps from action to action never remaining faithful to any. He who broods over results is like a man given to objects of senses; he is ever distracted, he says goodbye to all scruples, everything is right in his estimation and he therefore resorts to means fair and foul to attain”

“If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior.”

“Lebe, als würdest Du morgen sterben und lerne, als ob Du ewig leben würdest.”

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

“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name.”

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

“Si quieres cambiar el mundo, cámbiate a tí mismo”

“ce que peut l'un de nous, les autres le peuvent.”