Acquire big degrees, achieve fame. No harm. Go abroad, earn money and reputation; nothing wrong in that. But never forget your own culture. Don’t criticise others’ culture. Wherever you are, make your life an ideal for others. Speak pleasantly. Do good deeds. Then you will be a good person. Do not strive to acquire the status of a great man. Always strive to become a good man. Great men may do many evil deeds, but the acts of a good man always stand out as ideals for others. Ravana was a great man. Rama is the example par excellence of a good man. Both had mastered the same studies; but how different were their natures! Ravana, though endowed with extraordinary learning, was himself destroyed and caused the destruction of his entire clan, because of one bad quality of desire. Hiranyakashipu, master of all the five elements, was ruined by his evil quality of anger. Duryodhana was ruined by greed. He refused to give even five villages to the Pandavas. All these persons not only destroyed themselves, they caused the utter destruction of their entire clans. Even one evil trait is enough to cause ruin! Then imagine the fate of one who has all six evil qualities of lust, anger, greed, pride, envy and hatred? – Divine Discourse, Nov 22, 1999