The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
The tongue should express what is in the heart.
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God.
It is not wrong to be an ignorant; it is an error to continue to be an ignorant.