Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

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.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.