Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Politics is not a game. It's an earnest business.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

You feed your depressive thoughts through overthinking.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It is only on the basis of undiluted nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. 

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.