Excerpts from Swami Vivekananda's speeches

1. The ideal woman in India is the mother.
2. The one thing that fulfills womanhood, that is womanliness in woman, is motherhood.
3. Universal religion, great sympathy for the poor, and all that are very good in theory, but one must practise
4. Help whenever you can, but mind what your motive is. If it is selfish, it will neither benefit those you help, nor yourself. If it is unselfish, it will bring blessings upon them to whom it is given, and infinite blessing upon you, sure as you are living.
5. This is life’s experience; if you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. If you are sincere and really unselfish, it must crumble before your power of the lord himself in you.