Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.