Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".