Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

Whatever's between us is that kind of new.

Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.