Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.