The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.