When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

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.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. 

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.