Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.