Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. 

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

Agreed—life is a gamble. But that is no reason for you to become a gambler.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.