One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

What we think, we become.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

One of the advantages of renting a house is that you can easily change it if you don’t like it.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

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

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.