Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.