Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.