Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.