One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.