I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami]

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them as they are about us.

He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.

Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.