What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

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

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.