To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

To kill nothing, that is love.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.