“Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.”

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step – will we operate in God’s all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.