The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

There is some solution to every problem. No lock was ever made without keys.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Eating words has never given me indigestion. 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Morality is contraband in war. 

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.