There cannot be friendship without equality.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.