Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

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

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.

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.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Christ, it's so good to be alive.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.