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.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.