It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.