The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

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!

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Charity never faileth.

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.