The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.