Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.