And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.