I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. 

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.