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

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.

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

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

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.