Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions