The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.