Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Pleasure is a physical experience.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

Men, money and material cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits."

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

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.