Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

He came to me through faith in him.

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.