“It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.”

Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Let us grow together, enjoy together.

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.

Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

Real happiness lies within you.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.

Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.