Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.