“If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.”

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

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.

I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

Don’t hire the most qualified, hire the craziest