sathe sathyam (Deal with a bully like a bully, with a wicked person like a wicked person.)

A person who has tasted the nectar of contentment, and whose mind is at peace, that person enjoys the kind of happiness, which is not to be enjoyed by one who is running here and there in search of more and more wealth.

A man should be content with his own wife, with food, and with wealth. But he must not be content with studies, with tapa (i.e. devotion to hard work for achieving an aim), and with charity.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

A snake, even if it is not venomous, should still spread its fangs. No one knows whether it has venom or not. Just by pretending, people will become afraid of it.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin; it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin – to say that you are weak, or that others are weak.

O India, forget not that the ideal of your womanhood is Sita, Savitri, Damayanti; forget not that the God you worship is the great Ascetic of ascetics, the all-renouncing Shankara, the Lord of Uma; forget not that your marriage, your wealth, your life are not for the sense pleasure, are not for your individual happiness; forget not that you are born as a sacrifice to the Mother's altar; forget not that your social order is but the reflex of the Infinite Universal Motherhood; forget not that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the cobbler, the sweeper, are your flesh and blood, your brothers.

....... and repeat and pray day and night, "O You Lord of Gauri, O You Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me! O You Mother of Strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanliness, and make me a Man!"