“If I gave America any kind of hope or any kind of inspiration, I really want to say thank you for allowing me to continue doing that week after week.”

Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.

I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness – namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

…and yet I am what they think I am.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.