Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.