The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

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

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.