Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.

After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!