Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.