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.

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)