It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Dictators are bound to usurp democracy at the very first opportunity. 

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Never, never, never give up. 

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.