“Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.”

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella’s line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.