If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.