If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.