Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

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

Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

Man is not mind, he is soul.

Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.