If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

Never let the weight of challenges and the duration of your dreams scare you to give up.

To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

It matters not how long we live but how.

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

Data is great, but strategy is better