Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.