"Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals."

"This very world will become to us an optimistic world when we become masters of our own minds"

"The body is neither yours, nor mine, nor anybody's. These bodies are coming and going by the laws of nature, but we are free, standing as witness."

"Do you ask anything from your children in return for what you have given them? It is your duty to work for them, and there the matter ends. In whatever you do for a particular person, a city, or a state, assume the same attitude towards it as you have towards your children -expect nothing in return."

"Nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power."

"All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, 'We are learning,' and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant, and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient."

"If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be."

"He reveals Himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see God."

"It is good to love God for hope of reward in this or the next world, but it is better to love God for love's sake."

"The human soul is eternal and immortal, perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centre from one body to another."