It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!