To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them.

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.