All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

We are the flower of eternal consciousness.

We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Animals make us Human.