Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.