The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.