Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Education pervades all forms of learning.

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.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

To my mind the old masters are not at; their value is in their scarcity.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, IS myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Some appointments end up in disappointment.