No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

All is bound by the law of causation

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.