As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remove ourselves.

The Sun determines the seasons on earth but human beings can influence the seasons by destroing the environment which could result in climate change.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

When warmongers offer to negotiate for peace, it is called diplomacy.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.