If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.