There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Once you buy a house, you are stuck with the pros and cons of the house.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Where there is love there is life.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.