Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.