“Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.”

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

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

Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

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

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

I’m a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

Some of us have so much to give. We can give it all away and still know how to live.

Mother Earth is so generous. If only we give her the chance, she will restore everything in absolute abundance and beauty.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.