We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.