“Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don’t want to die, you don’t get born!”

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

The Lord is in everything that’s in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it’s really a reflection of God. You see it in other people – that’s him too, you know?

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

So it’s really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It’s you who decides.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcomed.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

Love one another (His last words).

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

I don’t think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

In soft regions are born soft men.

It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Success only breeds a new goal