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

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is no retirement age for writers…

It's not a faith in technology. Its faith in people.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.