“The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.”

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

Everyone’s God is One.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the ‘educated’ person.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Education must promote peace, security and happiness.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

True beauty lies in true education.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

It’s not your fault you were born into a poor family or country.