The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. - Swami Vivekananda

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were, only we shall understand the whole thing.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end” (note 7).