Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples