One needs a Seer’s Vision and an angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.