Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. – Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. – Swami Sivananda
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. – Swami Sivananda
Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain. – “Proverbs Secular and Sacred,” The North British Review, February 1858