You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

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

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.