The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.