I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Someone saved a guy who was committing suicide. Now both of them believe in life after death.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. 

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

It is difficult to violently suppressed people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Whether you call it Buddhism or other religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.