In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.