Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".