No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

I believe in being an innovator.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

The best way to solve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The contemporary media is guilty of shortchanging the real meaning of news.

One of the advantages of renting a house is that you can easily change it if you don’t like it.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.