The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.