The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."