Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

People will listen to you when you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’? When you do not look for laws or rules

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.