“Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.”

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

So it’s really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It’s you who decides.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcomed.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

Love one another (His last words).

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Time won’t heal this damage anymore. Don’t turn your back on me, I won’t be ignored.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God’s good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.