The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

I've always kept my body in shape and I will continue to always keep my body in shape.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.