Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your minds eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Be kind wherever possible

The mind is everything. What you think you become

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. The plant develops its own nature. It also teaches itself, but you can help it to go forward in its own way. What you can do is to sow an aspiration-seed.,Swami Vivekanand