The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.