"Be strong, my young friends; that is..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.”

“If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.”

“Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.”

“Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.”

“As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.”

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”