Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

Every change is being forced upon us.

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

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.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.