The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Gratitude is a gladness of soul.

Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.