A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

To kill nothing, that is love.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.