“Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.”

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Bear insult, bear injury.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.

So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.