None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.

Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.