Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .