“Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.”

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

Love sustains everything.

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

Each and every living being in nature is part of God’s body.

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.