The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!