My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.