Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth. - Swami Vivekananda

The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head; they were content only to give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, and wanted others to do the same.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.