Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

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.

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

Don't call it freedom, unless it includes the freedom to be absolutely disgusting.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.