If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.