Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Change is inherent in every form.

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.