True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

When we think we know we cease to learn.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.