To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.