Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.