“So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.”

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.

Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart.

Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.

The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?

…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof

The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest