Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.