We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.