The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. 

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s blood.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.