“Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.”

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift, and never waste such an opportunity.

To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.