If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would hav… - Swami Vivekananda

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.

No one ever landed on English soil with more hatred in his heart for a race than I did for the English, and, on this platform, are present English friends who can bear witness to the fact, but the more I lived among them, saw how the machine is working, the English national life, mixed with them, found where the heart-beat of the nation was, the more I loved them. There is none among you here present, my brothers, who loves the English people more than I do. You have to see what is going on there, and you have to mix with them. As the philosophy, our national philosophy of the Vedanta, has summarised all misfortune, all misery from that one cause, ignorance, herein also we must understand that the difficulties that arise between us and the English people are mostly due to that ignorance; we do not know them, they do not know us.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.