There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .