If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

To kill nothing, that is love.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.

Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this.

Honestly, my number-one motivation is my family.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.