Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.

Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the order to sing His praises night and day. The Master summoned the minstrel to His True Court. He clothed me with the robe of His true honour and eulogy. Since then, the True Name had become my ambrosial food.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from lifes abundance.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

Forever and forever farewell Cassius If we do meet again why we shall smile If not why then this parting was well made.

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

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We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.