Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.