There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

History is a thing of the past!

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.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

As long as I have life, as long as blood flows through the arms of mine, I shall not leave the cause of freedom.

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

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.