“Mark me, then and then alone you are a Hindu, when the very name sends through you a galvanic shock of strength.  Then and then alone you are a Hindu, when every man who bears the name, from any country, becomes at once the nearest and the dearest to you.  Then and then alone you are a Hindu, when the distress of anyone bearing that name comes to your heart and makes you feel as if your own son were in distress.”

“India alone was to be, of all lands, the land of toleration and of spirituality…
The world is waiting for this grand idea of universal toleration….
The other great idea that the world wants from us today….is that eternal ideal of the spiritual oneness of the whole universe…
This is the dictate of Indian philosophy. This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and all spirituality.”