The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.