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.

To quench my longing I bent myself low by the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow in that magical wood in the land of sleep.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

Your future can be secured by what you are sowing today—not what you are harvesting today.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

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

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

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.