If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.