“You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.”

“What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, “I am Great”. “

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It’s really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.

Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

In it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand…