Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.