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

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

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.

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.

Everything is music for the born musician.

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

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