Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.

From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.