We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.