The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit and united power.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

No distinctions of caste and creed should hamper us. All are the sons and daughters of India. We should all love our country and build our destiny on mutual love and help.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.