Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

My eye is ever on those who love me.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.

I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.