Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

The body cannot be the soul.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

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

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.