You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

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

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.