I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. 

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. 

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.