It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.