Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Give me blood and I will give you freedom!” One of his most quoted lines is from a speech that Bose delivered to the soldiers of Indian National Army that he commanded along with Mohan Singh.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.