What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

We are so very 'umble.

My son has died of AIDS.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.