Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.