Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed.

Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.