Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.  

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Abundance may be the root cause of wastage.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushed into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.