We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself