“We’re trying to impress ourselves in a way. That’s why we keep trying to do things better. We never get satisfied.”

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.

I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.’

I’m here to bless, not to impress.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

A good first impression can work wonders.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.