To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

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

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.