My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?