Materialism and commercialisation are destroying the basic human nature.

Get mad, then get over it.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Tell the children the truth.

Your goodness is impediment in your way, so let your eyes be red with anger, and try to fight injustice with a firm hand.

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.