Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.