Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.