The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

It is only love that fuels the spirit of great deeds.

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

I strongly support the feeding of children.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.