Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. 

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.