Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: You must give, if you want to get.

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

Karma prevails over predictions of all occult sciences.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Dictators are bound to usurp democracy at the very first opportunity. 

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.