“Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.”

A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.

The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.

Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

“I had Krishna and I have lost Him.” That is humility.

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

Speak the essence and live by it.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Once you start rewriting, you’re not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.