My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.