A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Names are powerful things.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.