I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible