The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Giving is the secret of abundance.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large