Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backwards.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

God is everywhere.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The best way to deal with an argument is to avoid entering into one.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.