The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. 

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. 

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principles, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.