Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.