Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulty.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.