“Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over, this earth.”

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. … Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.

In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions.

Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.