It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity.

Lazy and indifferent the heron returns

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.