I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

it only takes sparks to light a fire

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.