“The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.”

The end of education is character.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

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.

Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

Every moment is the right moment.

When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.

See with the eyes of love / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith – so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

God has no beginning and no end.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

When I see the toothless guy, as a liberal, what I say is, ‘I want to help you get teeth.’ Why does that make me an a**hole?

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.