Peace is its own reward.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I always say that people should not rush to change religion. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

He would make a lovely corpse.