Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.