The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

True progress is slow but sure.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.