What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.

You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

life is a continous journey of transformation

When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Each day is a drive through history.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.