He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.