If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.