I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

My son has died of AIDS.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

Looks like slavery was in always in the human DNA. Why else do we find people subduing others and others willing to slog for their masters?

My only desire is that India should be a good producer and no one should be hungry, shedding tears for food in the Country.