The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.