“I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn’t qualify.”

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

The challenge of co-operation in today’s age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

Humility is practical application of knowledge.

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.

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.

Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them.

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

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

Renunciation means death of false ego.

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

If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.