“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.”

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we’ve forgotten that it’s our essence.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

Lord’s love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.

Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one’s devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

The artist must say it without saying it.

The Kurds know that they won’t achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries.

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.

I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.