One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

To kill nothing, that is love.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.

Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it’s defined by the amount you can bend before breaking.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.