Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. - Swami Vivekananda

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.