There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

The flight of our mind is restricted by our conditioning.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. 

The price of greatness is responsibility. 

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