If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

Perceptions are often misplaced.

Nobody can make it to the present or the future by clinging to their past.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

The word ‘I’ should be a non-entity because it promotes ego.

Sometimes we buy things to impress people we may not even know.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Rulers are remembered for their commitment to masses more than anything else.

Hope is a waking dream.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

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

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.