Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.