Pleasure is a physical experience.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

If you are a late riser, you may miss out on a lot of things in life.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. 

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.