If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.