I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertion, we shall be able to preserve with your own strength.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushed into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

I always say that people should not rush to change religion. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.