"Do not wait for anybody or anything...." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.”

“The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.”

“We know there is no progress in a straight line.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

“Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.”

“The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.”

“All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.”

“I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.”

“We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”