No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.