If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

The true measure of what you put in, is what's received on the other end.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.