There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.