In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

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.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

I just want to fill the hearts and minds of the people who listen to my music

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.