I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Only human beings can be inhuman.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.