Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.