The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Change in ourselves equals change in our society.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.