When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

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.

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.

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

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.