According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

All real progress must be slow.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.