“Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.”

I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.

Being a good example is the best form of service.

Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember – nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

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.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that’s accomplishment.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.