While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.