The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

All change is in the screen.

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.