“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”

“Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.”

“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”

“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.”

“Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.”

“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, t...”

“Success comes in waves.”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.”

“I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.”

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense t...”

“Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”

“Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.”