Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

People fear what they don't understand. They always have.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.