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

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.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

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.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.