Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

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.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.