A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

Moms come up to me at book signings.

Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.