Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.