All the powers in the universe are already ours.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.