“A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.”

The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.

Don’t let a breath escape from your body without Krishna’s name. That should be our determination throughout our life.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

“What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, “I am Great”. “

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it’s just a case of what you select to do. But I think it’s realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation.