“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

The genuine Guru is God’s representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word “Krishna,” and Christ is derived from Kristos.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

In spiritual life, one must conduct one’s whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

It’s better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

Inspiration comes from so many things that it’s hard to define what that is or when it happens.

I wanted money without the job.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I’m writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

If given a chance to turn back clock, I wouldn’t change a thing, as I wouldn’t be the rockstar I am today, if life didn’t give me migraines.