The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Good design is good business.

Haze is the veil that filters the beauty of nature.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.