Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.