“Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.”

A devotee’s life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.

Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, “Guru Kripa”, it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

Application of humility is service.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.

You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.