What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.