When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.