It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.