The highest achievement of perfect civilization is to work with valor but at the same time depend completely on the Lord.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.37,
Srila Prabhupada
Our first business is this book distribution. There is no need of any other business. If the book distribution is managed properly, pushed on with great enthusiasm and deremination and at the same time if our men keep spiritually strong, then the whole world will become Krishna conscious. – Letter to: Satsvarupa, Nellore, 5 January, 1976
We must accept Bhagavad-Gita withour interpretation, without deletion and without our own whimsical participation in the matter.
Material sense gratification, sinful activity kills the propensity to serve Krishna.
This book distribution was my Guru Maharaja’s purpose. He said that I have got so many temples and now in Calcutta I have got a marble temple, but I would have wished that if by selling marbles I could publish and distribute books.
[Letter to Ramesvara 14 Nov 1975]
Have you noticed in life that the person who causes you the most unhappiness is you?
Consciousness is important… Killer says, “I Shall kill you.” Surgeon says, “I shall save you.”