Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.

I miss you, ” is how she entices you.“I want you, ” is how she charms you.“I need you, ” is how she entraps you.“I love you, ” is how she imprisons you.

Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.