To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.