What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

Associations are communities that are built on the hearts and minds of people who come together to do good in the world

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

It's okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.